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RICHARD B. BLACK, OF EXPERIMENT MILLS, PENNSYLVANIA.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,335, dated March 18, 1884. Application filed January 15,1884. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD B. BLACK, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of Experiment Mills, in the county of Monroe and State of Pennsylvania, one ofthe States of the United States of America, have invented a new and useful Button, ot' which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the shank of the button, the object being to provide a button having a shank so formed that the button may be secured to the object, or, in case of accident severing the shank, a new one may be applied.

My invention therefore consists in forming the shank ofthe button in two parts, and ben ding the parts inwardly side by side, with the ends curved upward in opposite directions past each other, to form alock when both are slipped through a fastening ring or staple.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view showing the bars of the shank before being bent in pla-ce. Fig. 2 is a view of the emr plete button, and Fig. 3 is aview showing the button attached to a fastener.

The letter A represents the head of the button, having fixed therein, by any ofthe usual means of manufacturing, the metallic shank-strands a c. These shank-stran ds are preferably made ,tapering to an edge, and have those sides which are intended to lap fiat, while the outer sides are rounded, in order that when the strands are brought together they may forni a rounded shank, well adapted to enter and be retained by a. small fastening loop or staple. These shankstrands are then bent inwardly with their fiat surfaces adjacent, and the ends bent upward lapping in opposite directions pasteaeh other, substantially as seen in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the shank -of niyiniproved button is made and attached on the principle of a split ring.

In Fig. BI have shown a fastener consisting of a small loop or staple fixed to a plate, and the staple passed up through a perforation in the material and left protruding far enough ,to admit of the passage of the shank. 'Any suitable fastener may be used having a loop or staple projecting through the leather or material.

The button may be applied to thev fastener by inserting the free end of one of the shankstrands through the loop or staple fastener and passing itthrough until the free end of the other strand is passed, when by reversing the movement and inserting the free end of that strand in the loop or staple of the fastener and drawing the `button to the desired position it is secured in place. A reverse operation to that j ust described will remove the button; but it cannot and will not become detached by accident through the slit or space between the strands of the shank.

vIt will thus be seen that I provide a' button which can be attached by the fingers, and in such simple and effective manner as to coinmend itself to the trade or the consumer.

XV hat I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An improvement in buttons, consisting of a metal shank composed of two strands bent toward each other to form a closed loop, with their ends overlapping in opposite directions, as shown, and adapted to be attached to or detached from the fastening-staple, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my naine in the presence of two attesting witnesses.

RICHARD B. BLACK.

Attest:

J. W. HAMPToN, J r., T. B. VANDBGRIFT. 

